Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shanda

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.82 in modern English

Syllables: shan-da
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Shame; disgrace.

Example Sentences

"Oi, it was such a shanda. I should never buy gribenes from a Mohel. It's so chewy."
"A shanda is humiliation and embarrassment one's misdeed suffers upon one's family. In our faith, a shanda is a terrible sin."
"They don't learn about their heritage. They don't learn about Israel. It's a shanda."
"My parents are Orthodox Jews. To them, intermarriage is considered a shanda."

Etymology

From Yiddish שאַנדע (shande), from Middle High German schande, schante, from Old High German scanta, skanta, from Proto-West Germanic *skandu (“shame”). Doublet of shand.

Origin

Source language: Yiddish

Word Breakdown

Root: שאַנדע, schande, scanta, *skandu

Inflected Forms

shandas (plural) schanda (alternative) schande (alternative) shande (alternative) shonda (alternative) shonde (alternative)

Questions

What does shanda mean?: Shame; disgrace.
Where does shanda come from?: It is traced to Yiddish.

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